Notices by Astryr the Seiber-Swynwraig (alexandria@mastodon.gamedev.place)

the monty python and the holy grail with the bridge keeper but hes like- WHAT is yer name, WHAT is yer email, WHAT is yer order number,

@Raccoon @vantablack

Because that's the result here.

Maybe a third of the mutual aid posts I've seen were, often bipoc, queer people trying to escape their abusive home environment.

Almost all of the mutual aid posts I've seen are people struggling to feed and house themselves, and the ones that aren't are asking for necessary funds towards their mental health, towards resources to help them actually fucking survive in the world.

@Raccoon @vantablack

You're looking at this from an abstract perspective of "there are people shitting up the tag!"

We're looking at this from a personal perspective of — most of the aid posts I've seen went untended, and as a result some of those fediverse posters were placed in emotional, physical, tangible harm, some of them possibly died or were killed.

That is why there is anger and frustration here. You can all afford to spend a LOT of money on a gesture while people suffer and die.

@Raccoon @vantablack
If everyone who donated the money to mastodon for harris, instead donated that money to people on the fediverse, it would mean a tangible, *measurable* reduction of predominantly queer people, predominantly bipoc people, suffering on the fediverse.

That is why there is anger involved. That is why activism takes the form of "showing those people the mutual aid posts they are neglecting and ignoring, that each represent real personal suffering endured by minorities"

@Raccoon @vantablack What this makes clear, when you are looking at this as someone who personally sees about two dozen mutual aid posts a day, in regards to health, in regards to housing, etc. is that mastodon has a very clear class stratification.

There are apparently people who can afford to throw away hundreds, thousands of dollars towards what is essentially the most insufficient, meaningless gesture in the entire world of campaign politics, rather than *actually help & save other people*.

@Raccoon @vantablack And on top of that, those funds are raised by predominantly white, predominantly cishet people on the fediverse. People, and people from fedi nodes who, for the most part never boost or otherwise interact with mutual aid posts. Some people on instances that restrict or otherwise ban posts for aid.

@Raccoon @vantablack

So, now that's been established, a direct response -

Ok, you are right you never said to ignore mutual aid. But what we (queer/poor people) are seeing is hundreds of thousands of dollars being given to an effort that is ultimately, a drop in the pond in terms of campaign funding, to a donor that is swimming in funds. And this is the case while many, many people who are on fedi, right now, are struggling to feed and house themselves.

@Raccoon @vantablack

> It's not like many of us were saying to donate to Harris and ignore all Mutual Aid from now on, and it's definitely not like support for Kamala Harris itself was going to harm the people who are on the hashtag

im going to answer this a bit too but i only have small character length so

@Raccoon @vantablack

So first let's establish ball parks for campaign funding. A typical, offhand campaign donation is in the range of millions of dollars. The smallest you will typically see in american politics is a couple of million dollars from an org or a society to a political campaign.

I think, we can both agree that it is extremely unlikely, if not impossible, for mastodon for harris to raise that amount of funding.

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linguists: Darmok is a good but unrealistic episode because there's no way memes would supplant normal modes of communication within a society

me: *frequently and literally unable to express concepts to my parents because the only way i can think to describe things is "ralph sitting on the bus exclaiming carelessly his own mortality" and there's no easy way to explain all the consequents of that meme without sharing the meme with them*

@Polychrome yeah, it's. confusing @_@

@Polychrome
the new 2024 Apple+ show Dark Matter is from the book, Dark Matter

the 2015 Syfy show Dark Matter is from the unrelated comic book, Dark Matter

people wore sock suspenders...?

@vantablack Yeah, I'm really sorry to put this on you but,,, you're a high value central node in this resistance effort ❤️🖤

I hope you manage to take a break soon x

Jumping on this b/c I've been mulling abt making a post for a while now #MastodonForHarris #MutualAid

I'm trans, unemployed, disabled, and waiting on specific ppl to get back to me about ADHD clinics so I can get treated and back into work.

I am asking for funds for clothing. I currently have only 1 or 2 tshirts and 3 skirts that I cycle through. It would be nice to be able to get some more clothing, at least 1 outfit that is normal and gender-affirming.

Thank you <3

https://ko-fi.com/alexandria

sorry but i dont fully understand the "anti-pronoun" sentiment that i see a lot of post-transition trans girls spouting, where they will argue that someone who asked their pronouns was like, violating them or whatever

@goatsarah (u know this already but just in case - the chance of hepatotoxicity of cypro reduces as the dose lowers, while the anti-androgen effects actually increase with lower doses,)

@Polychrome How is it coping/doing with the lack of trackpads?

(donation req, boost please)

Hey there! My disabled, queer, trans partner @melerva is currently 6mo into a job-hunt, and has maxed out her credit cards :S

She needs $600 to make minimum payments until someone hires her! She's currently supporting both herself, another partner of hers', and several animals, so its a bit of a pickle -- anything you can donate will help <3

Her ko-fi is https://ko-fi.com/melerva

#mutualaid #transcrowdfund #fundraiser #solidarity #queer #trans #disabled #disability

@ryanc @Susan_Larson_TN "transsexualism" is also seen as a fetish and blocked in those software suites for the same reason, it's honestly utterly disgusting that she'd make that claim without even a hint of self-reflection or irony